it's official!

the move to wordpress is complete and tested. i will not be updating this site any longer. the new location for i, prash is: http://www.prash.net, but i have found a good use for this place.
whenever prash.net is down for maintenance, i will point it here. please do not change your bookmarks back to this site: the new location will be back up soon whenever that happens.
see you there!

i, prash, am on wordpress!

finally!
after much procrastination, i, prash, am excited to report that i now use wordpress! i, prash, join the ranks of fine predecessors like alex, carthik and of course those southern artistes karthik and manoj!
it was not really a 5 minute install thanks to wordpress still in tune with mysql's OLD_PASSWORD, but anyway, here i, prash, am - all set to explore the wonderful features, themes and plugins of this truly easy to use tool.
for sometime, i will continue to update here until things are all set with the new location. thereafter, i'll see you there!
here's to many more fun days of blogging!

razor sharp!

two seconds after razor2 is installed, it kicks in like the superstar it is!
vipul, you, sir, rock!

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searching for spam

who would have ever thought it would happen?
2 hours waiting for spam. 2 self-loathing, anger-inducing, can't-believe-i am-actually-waiting-for-spam hours.
and then it comes, gets a score of 3.5 and slips right into my inbox without a by-your-leave!
#*&$%!(^#*@&!!!

ok let me explain.
yesterday i installed my own mailserver. yes yes, it had everything: qmail, qmail-pop3d, bincimap, vpopmail, qmailscanner, spamassassin, clamav - in short "the works".
and then the craziest thing happened. i had to verify that everything was hunky-dory with my setup and so guess what i needed ..... some spam! and can you believe i got not one piece of junkmail on that sunday evening for 2 straight hours. and then, when it finally comes, all decked up in its grandiose promise of increasing my length and girth, spamassassin takes one cursory glance at it, gives it a score of only 3.5 ( my threshold is 5.0 for junk mail) and sends it skipping off to my INBOX.
darn it! (those were not my exact words, but i am trying to keep this pg)
anyway, i think it's time for vipul's razor.
more on this later (and for those trying to do something similar - coming soon is a complete guide to a decent debian system - i had the sense to document my every step this time around - so keep that ping coming!)